Important discoveries

[avram]

1. Drunk people really do act like that.

I somehow managed to get through college without ever having been exposed to people getting drunk. Mostly I just saw the after-effects, generally in the person of my freshman-year roommate who’d get out of class early on Fridays, already be sleeping off his first drunk of the night when I got in, and then would recover sometime in the evening and head out for more. I still have no idea how the traffic cone got there.

Today a bunch of us got together for bigscary’s birthday (which had been on Thursday), at a place which serves not only big servings of southern food but also massive drinks. Really massive. The one they were working on when I got there (late) was served in a fishbowl. The later one was served in a 2.5-gallon jar, and could only be ordered by parties of at least eight. I imbibed some, but stayed well within my (as yet undetermined, and after tonight I’m happy to leave them that way) limits.

So, discovery time. Y’know how drunks act in comedy movies? Turns out they really act like that. Who knew? I’d always thought it was comedic exaggeration. We had one guy who became the I Really Love You Man drunk, a classic of many films, skits, and cartoons. Another became the Alternately Angry And Morose Drunk, eventually turning into the Unconscious Drunk, which would have been fine if he hadn’t woken up as the Copiously Vomiting Drunk. Really, really copiously. We left at that point. The manager told him he was never allowed back, and he transformed into Uncoordinated Staggering Drunk while being helped over to BigScary’s nearby apartment.

2. Overbite is Weasel.

I mentioned the other day that I couldn’t find issue #6 of Dave Cooper’s Weasel? I stopped in at Jim Hanley’s to check for it, and saw Cooper’s new art book, Overbite: Drawings & Paintings of Mostly Pillowy Girls. I browsed through it, but figured I’d hold off and buy it at Cosmic (where it’ll count towards an accumulation of store credit) next week, and made do with a copy of the Bulletproof Monk TPB. But while browsing around, I discovered through the Reverse Cowgirl blog that Overbite is Weasel #6! Mystery solved. Mmmm, naked pillowy women....

Comments

[mamishka.livejournal.com]

Pillowy women. :D I hadn't heard that one before. Plush. I've always liked the term, plush. But Pillowy is a pretty good second. ;)

[avram]

"Plush" makes me think they oughta be covered with very dense hair. Not my kink; I like 'em smooth. Though I like the connotations of softness, and lushness.

[mamishka.livejournal.com]

Yeah, for some reason "plush" only indicates soft and lush to me - I guess cause I always had "stuffed" animals, not plush animals. :)

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

A mail art friend of mine in Mpls. used to make a postcard that had in very big letters on it, "Please Don't Drink and Drive." Then, in increasingly small letters, it said, "Also, don't drink and burst into song. Don't drink and show everyone pictures of your children." And so on, for the entire card.

Yes, it's sad but true, drunk people really do act like that.

[supergee.livejournal.com]

Your college education was deficient.

[kent-allard-jr.livejournal.com]

Damn, I wish I could've come. Despite the drunk, I guess.

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

Drunk people do, in fact, do that.

Not that I would ever have done so, goodness me, no, never crossed my mind...

[bigscary.livejournal.com]

Fun, though.
Thanks for coming.
Well, fun right up until B's noisy hello to the tabletop.

Chris knows her limits.

[(Anonymous)]

I had my moments at MIT when I worked the front desk of my dorm. At the DFDSF (Drugs for Desk Staffers Fund) party, I didn't have any beer but I did do about a quart of screwdrivers. This is my limit. It took three people to carry me back to my dorm room from the restroom I was sprawled over in prayer to the porcelain deity. I slept it off and was fine the next afternoon. And I said to myself, "OK, I've done that, and I never need to do that again." And I never have. I don't get why other folks feel the need to have that experience more than once.

[marykaykare.livejournal.com]

It is interesting to see what happens to people when they're drunk. Often it isn't what you'd think. Recently an editor of our acquaintance demonstrated himself to be a very happy cheerful singing drunk. It doesn't go at all the way you'd think it might.

As to why people keep doing it. I don't know. I do it far less than I used to because my body just isn't as good at dealing with the aftermath as it used to be. Hangovers suck. But they've been doing it for a very long time. I've read articles theorizing that altering one's state is almost as basic a drive as hunger, thirst, and sex. Humans have been brewing alcohol as long as they've had grain. (And when they didn't, they were driven to doing things like drinking fermented mare's milk. EEEUUUWWW.)

MKK

[supergee.livejournal.com]

My father knew a guy who'd been to every country in the world and gave lectures. He said he'd never found a culture that didn't ferment *something*.

[negativeq.livejournal.com]

You are very fortunate if you managed to get through all your years without encountering People of Extreme Drunkeness. I am still chuckling over the "I Really Love You Man" drunk. :)